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Quality Quotes

Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

– Gautam Gambhir

I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It’s the quality, not the quantity.

– Garry Shandling

The real challenge in doing a TV show is in what I would call the maintenance energy. You take that creative energy and you use it every week, of course. But you then need to maintain the quality of the stories, and it’s harder to do.

– Chris Carter

We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.

– Carrie Preston

The NBC using us on air is a great endorsement of quality.

– Dave Goldberg

Genre pleasures are many, but the quality of shared values within an ongoing discussion may be the most powerful, enlisting lifelong devotion in its fans.

– Gregory Benford

If you have a great-sounding guitar that’s a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that’s the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

– Eddie Van Halen

I don’t watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when you’re alone and someone’s voice is coming through their work. There’s a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more.

– Dylan Moran

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.

– Dwight Yoakam

If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing – there may just be too much of it.

– Michael Winter

I like that ‘once upon a time’ quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There’s a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they’re real world based.

– Erin Morgenstern

If you are working with high quality products, you can elevate the flavors more by cooking it at a low temperature than you can by searing it.

– Daniel Humm

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess’d of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

– Eliza Haywood

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don’t think you can change that.

– Nigella Lawson

I look at companies as price-players or quality-players. The only way to go with J.Crew was quality.

– Mickey Drexler

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

– Corin Nemec

I’m completely open about the fact that I don’t love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It’s got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

– Eddie Trunk

The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we’re way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.

– Don Kardong

It’s a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.

– Danny McBride

Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper – someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I’m sure my wife has your sympathy, but it’s made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

– Mark Feuerstein

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o’ nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.

– Ellen Terry

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

– Dorothea Lange

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

– Don King

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

– Eric Clapton

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

– Eric Hoffer

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

– David Mamet

Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.

– Ellen G. White

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

– Michael Apted

My parents didn’t have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.

– Derek Fisher

Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It’s hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what’s lasted – what’s still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.

– Donald Judd

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